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PURDUE FACULTY LAY OUT SKEPTICAL HOPES FOR SB 202 ROLL OUT

Results of a new survey of faculty on campus laid out a host of concerns about how Purdue will deal with Indiana’s recently enacted higher education reforms, including ones that stipulate regular tenure reviews that call for politically appointed trustees to decide professors’ tenure on criteria of whether they are “unlikely to foster a culture of free inquiry, free expression and intellectual diversity.”

The survey, initiated as Senate Bill 202 was working its way through the General Assembly, asked faculty across the Purdue system for “what concrete recommendations” they had about implementation of the law and “what policy outcomes would most safeguard professional and educational productivity and sense of security” on campus.

“If faculty or instructors feel that their academic freedom in the classroom is not being respected, that would be the greatest concern that emerged from the responses on the survey,” Susan South, vice chair of the University Senate, said during a presentation Monday.

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Among the other general themes from the survey, faculty asked for: